> The entire idea of a "Super Primary" is the beginning of
> the end of our system.
You say that like it's a bad thing....
The 2 party "system" in the US has been a nightmarishly disfunctional noose around the neck of the polity for too long, anyway.
Is there really any other way to do it in a winner-take-all system? Since Congress and the Senate are based on a single plurality winner in each seat, not a proportional system like most Parliamentary systems, regardless of what parties are out there it naturally levitates to a 2 party system after a couple election cycles even if a "third" party arises. Then the third party simply displaces one of the other two...see the defunct Whig and Federalist Parties for examples.
It is a bad thing. Now all the effort will be for one single day, February 5, 2008 to nominate. That is FAR too soon, and far too dependent on an election. It will become national, not state by state as we once knew it. The local or statewide issues will be tossed aside. I predict disaster.
The one party system that will replace it is going to be a lot worse unless you're into socialism.